Sort issues by votes

User Story

As a GitLab user viewing an issues page, I would like the list of issues sorted by the number votes in descending order so that more important issues bubble to the top.

Elaboration

I believe this would best be approached by adding a votes column to the issues table. I believe this would enable the continuation of pagination more easily.

@sytses this must be on your radar some way, some how? Why else would votes be added to GitLab other than to increase the visibility of an issue with respect to other issues?

Hoping this will make 8.2 because I don't see it in 8.1?

@gsmethells The way to get this in would be to make it yourself. Are you able to do that?

I would need to get into the db portion of the code a bit more. I have an implementation of this for our own use, but it does not include pagination, which as I said would likely require a column change.

Beyond that, I need to get up to speed on how to submit to GitLab properly/as expected.

@dzaporozhets out of curiosity, where did votes go (starting 8.2)? Are they coming back? We use them extensively here to open up our project governance to all employees via vote feedback. Would you be open to the idea(s) expressed in the description of this issue?

@gsmethells we use emoji awards now for voting. It behaves almost the same. We did not include it in API but we will improve things in next release

cc @vsizov

Also I like idea sorting by votes (counting emoji thumbs up votes)

I will put 8.6 milestone so we actually implement it. I think we all get benefit from since it allows you to see most upvoted/requested issues

Milestone changed to 8.6

cc @JobV

@dzaporozhets sounds great!

mentioned in issue #3763 (closed)

@gsmethells awesome :)

Related to #3806 (closed)

@dzaporozhets I suspect that sorting by votes within a single project is the simplest case. I think for consistency, sorting by votes when there are many projects (at the group or dashboard level) should also be possible. This would mean interleaving the projects which is not what the UI currently does (it groups by project). What are your thoughts?

mentioned in issue #5546 (closed)

This would mean interleaving the projects which is not what the UI currently does (it groups by project)

@gsmethells you are right. I propose we implement sort inside project first and then raise another issue for possible change of dashboard/group ui

@dzaporozhets Okay. Do you want to open that issue or shall I?

@gsmethells if you don't mind please do

mentioned in issue #5881 (closed)

@dzaporozhets okay #5881 (closed) now covers that topic.

mentioned in issue #5596 (closed)

@gsmethells thanks

This feature will be awesome for democratic projects!

Really hope to see the ability to sort issues by votes soon. I think it was a bad idea to move the feature tracker to GitLab before implementing this feature as now it is hard to tell what the most popular feature requests are.

@dzaporozhets now that we are updated to 8.5 on-premise, I can say that most of what's left to do I think is more about #5881 (closed) than anything. The coarse-grain levels (dashboard and group) do "sort" by most popular, but the ability to interlace projects at those coarse-grain levels would take sorting by votes to another level.

@gsmethells ok cool. Can we close this issue and proceed with #5881 (closed) ?

Status changed to closed

@dzaporozhets yeah, let's continue the conversation there.